The keyboard layout is set in a GNOME specific way

[corrado venturini]

Installing Xubuntu from ISO dated 2024-03-20 02:02 I select English language and Italian keyboard but keyboard remains English.
In attached screenshot in the field try keyboard i entered all keys of the top row of the keyboard and you can see the result is wrong. I entered all keys without and with shift.
Entering the same keys with an italian keyboard the result is the following:
1234567890'ì!"£$%&/()=?^

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Looking at the 'writable' partition of the USB disk used for install I see 2 crash files.
attaching the zip file

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

attaching /var/log/installer

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Note: in the installed system keyboard is ok.

[Dennis Loose (dloose)]

I'm wondering if this issue is specific to non-gnome based flavors. Subiquity changes the live session's keyboard settings via gsettings here:
https://github.com/canonical/subiquity/blob/ubuntu/noble/subiquity/server/controllers/keyboard.py#L249-L258
I suspect this doesn't work on Xubuntu.

[Olivier Gayot (ogayot)]

It looks like bug 2060387 is the same issue on a GNOME desktop environment (Ubuntu). @corradoventu, do you confirm?

So it might not be specific to the flavor, but I wasn't able to reproduce the issue when I tried.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Yes, same problem.
found the problem installing Xubuntu from ISO dated 20240409
and installing Ubuntu from ISO 20240407 and 20240408
Attaching screenshot from Xubuntu 20240409

[Dennis Loose (dloose)]

I can also reproduce it now with the latest Ubuntu iso (20240409), so it's not a flavor-specific problem.

[Dennis Loose (dloose)]

Fixing bug 2060387 won't help resolve this issue for flavors that don't use gsettings. So this is a separate issue after all

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug 2060387 was another issue between the classic snap env and the new GNOME which landed in Noble, the current report is about the fact that calling `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources sources` (which the installer is currently doing) is probably not going to have the desired effect for other desktop environments

[Dennis Loose (dloose)]

Added a corresponding setxkbmap call here:
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/632